Vehicle body



Nw. 6,1923. l Mmm T T. ELLIOTT VEHICLE BODY FiledJune 28, 1921 l 3 Sheets-Sheet 1 T. ELLIOTT Nov. 6, 1923.

VEHICLE BODY Filed June 28, 1921 5 Sheets-Sheet 2 New. 6 1923.

, EAYSZS T. ELLIOTT VEHICLE BODY Filed June 28, 1921 5 Sheets-Sheet 3 Tw/i IN VEN TOR.

ATTORNEYS.

Patented Nov. bi, i923,

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THOMAS ELLIOTT, F CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOB T0 THE CINCINNATI lCAI?, COM- IPANY, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, A CORPORATION 0F OHIO.

VEHICLE BODY.

Application led .Tune 28, 1921.

To all 'whom 1f may concern Be it known that I, THOMAS ELLIOTT, a citizen of the United States, residing at Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Vehicle Bodies, ot which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the ac.com panying drawing.

l0 This invention relates to vehicle bodies.

particularly bodies for motor busses and electrical railway cars, more especially the former. Y

The general object which I have in view,

l and which this invention accomplishes, is the f sides of the body, some of the sashes being stored in one pocket and the others in the other pocket, together with theI positioning ot some of the sashes when closed in an overlapping position, one sash on another.

In my companion applications, Ser. No. 478,880, iiled June 20, 1921, and Ser. No. 481,119, filed J une 28, 1921, I have set forth what is here statedexcept as to the feature of the overlapping of the sashes, which latter feature' changes the yorganization considered as an entirety;

The general purpose of this additional `feature of the overlapping of the sashes is to insure a broader contact and therefore a tighter joint between the'sashes'. Jind this feature also requires a modification in the sash rest with respect tol the sashways or gi'oovesthereinQas will hereinafter appear.

In the accompanying drawings;

' v Fig. 1v is a sideelevati'on ot'my improved body vin the form adapted for a motor bus, with thesash vin a closed position;

Fig. Qis a likeview showing the body withthesashes removed from closed position to leave' the body open atthe sides; Fig. 3 vis apartialplan and partial hori- Serial No. 481,120.

zontal sectional view of the body with the sashes in closed position; f

Fig. Sais a detail view of the spring retainer; i Y

Fig. t is an enlarged sectional view on the line a--a of Fig..2;

Fig. 5 is an enlarged vertical sectional view of one side kot the body taken on the line b-b of Fig, 3; A

Fig. 6 is a like view taken on the line c-c ot Fig. 3. I

In Figs. 1 .and 2 Ihave shown, 'for the purposes of illustration, my improved vehicle body in a form adapted for use in a motor bus. But itwill be understood that so 'far as concerns the general arrangement and type or the body it may be such as is applicable for use in street and interurban railway cars.

Therefore, it will be understood that the body designated generally by the numeral 1.Y

may be of any ot the usual or approved .types of construction changed in the particulars now noted, namely, by theabsence ot side posts which occupy vertical positions along the sides ot' the body and divide olf the space into a succession ot window openings. These posts are eliminated under the terms of this invention. Instead the space indicatedat 2 is continuous or undivided from the sill 3 to the crown I and from the forward end 5 to the rear end 6. This space is occupied by the sashes 7, as shown in Figs. 1 and 8.

The numeral 8 designates the sash rest located along the lower margin of the large f opening 2 in the body. This rest is provided with grooves or ways 9, tor` the front and rear sashes 10 and 11. These grooves form shoulders 12 against which the sashes abut to prevent their further Inovement., lThe rest 8 also has a groove 13 for the sashes lll and 15. 'Ihis groove or way 13 is yunshoulderedy and merges with the groove 9, which latter is wide enough vfor two sashes and extends on into, the pockets where I have designated it 17, as will vlater appear.

lIhe sashes 1e and 15 abutvor come edge to edge while the sash 11 overlaps the sash leand the sash 10 overlapsfthe' sash 1,5.

The rest S-eXtends'back into the space` ifwaee g with the single width portion, and sashes engageeble with and disengageable from the adapted to occupy the single width groove remote edges of the middle sashes and arin edge to edge position and other sashes ranged to force said sashes toward each 10 to overlap them and occupy positions in the other when engaged. Y 5 double Width portions of the groove, and all n testimony whereof, I affix my signaof said sashes being adapted to slide into ture.

said pockets, respectively, and spring means THOMAS ELLIOTT. 

